Word: brought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the summer, Cineman Fox, proud of the quick expansion that had brought his organization Loew's Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the Gaumont Theatres in England, decided to consolidate all his holdings into one In September the authorized Class A stock of Fox Film was increased from 900,000 to 4,900,000 shares, but the consolidation never took place. Last summer Mr. Fox, injured in an automobile accident (TIME, July 29), was away from his office for almost two months. When he recovered he scarcely had time to start his plan with an attempt to distribute...
...motion picture companies stockmarket breaks do not mean diminished profits, for like tobacco companies they are "depression proof." But at this particular time the stockmarket decline brought severe trouble to Cineman Fox. During the recent period of expansion he had needed great sums of cash. These he had obtained by short-term loans upon the stock of acquired companies. With $91,000,000 of these notes falling due, with his collateral down, with conditions bad for refinancing, Cineman Fox for the first time needed assistance. Last week he summoned aid by appointing a trustee-triumvirate consisting of himself, a banker...
Almost the first act of the trustees was to appoint Charles Evans Hughes counsel. To him will come not only the routine problems of passing on the legality of the triumvirate's financing, but the problem of facing the suit brought against Fox last fortnight by the Government, charging violation of the Clayton anti-trust law by its ownership of Loew...
...human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged down the top of my desk; I should correct no more deadening papers that day. The tap at my door proved to be Kate...
Untamed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Any picture acted by so handsome a young woman as Joan Crawford is not hard to watch, even one so foolish as Untamed. There were possibilities of satire in the idea of a girl brought up in a South American jungle becoming a social success in a modern U. S. city. These possibilities were neglected; Untamed becomes a routine, highly improbable love story built around the man Miss Crawford meets on the boat coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with...